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// Authors: L. Moneta, A. Zsenei   08/2005 

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// Header file for class Polynomial
// 
// Created by: Lorenzo Moneta  at Wed Nov 10 17:46:19 2004
// 
// Last update: Wed Nov 10 17:46:19 2004
// 
#ifndef ROOT_Math_Polynomial
#define ROOT_Math_Polynomial

#include <complex>

#include "Math/ParamFunction.h"

namespace ROOT {
namespace Math {

  /**
     Parametric Function class describing polynomials of order n.

     <em>P(x) = p[0] + p[1]*x + p[2]*x**2 + ....... + p[n]*x**n</em>

     The class implements also the derivatives, \a dP(x)/dx and the \a dP(x)/dp[i].

     The class provides also the method to find the roots of the polynomial. 
     

     @ingroup CppFunctions
  */

  class Polynomial : virtual public ParamFunction {

  public: 
  
    /**
       Construct a Polynomial function of order n. 
       The number of Parameters is n+1. 
    */

    Polynomial(unsigned int n); 

    ~Polynomial(); 

    /**
       Copy constructor 
    */
    //Polynomial(const Polynomial &); 

    
    /**
       Copy operator 
    */
    //Polynomial & operator = (const Polynomial &);

    double operator() ( double x ); 
    
    double operator() ( double x, const std::vector<double> & p ); 

    double Gradient (double x); 

    const std::vector<double> & ParameterGradient( double x); 


    /**
       Find the polynomial roots. 
       For n < 3, the roots are found analytically while for larger order an iterative numerical method is used
       The numerical method used is from GSL (see <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/gsl-ref_6.html#SEC53" )
    */
    const std::vector<std::complex <double> > & FindRoots(); 

    IGenFunction * Clone() const; 
 

  protected: 


  private: 

    // cache order = number of params - 1)
    unsigned int fOrder;

    // cache Parameters for Gradient
    std::vector<double> fDerived_params;
 
    // roots

    std::vector< std::complex < double > > fRoots; 

}; 

} // namespace Math
} // namespace ROOT


#endif /* ROOT_Math_Polynomial */